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Paul

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About Me


"Heart Farming"; photoshop, 01.2008
"Lady Liberty"; photoshop collage, 10.2007
"First Kiss", 30" x 40", oil on canvas, 8.2007.
"Allegro", oil on canvas, 24x30, 6/2007.Prints Available.
"Trumpet II", oil on canvas, 24x30, 2007. Gray colors inspired by the work of fellow artist Martel.
"Man at Piano", oil on canvas, 24x30, 2006. Prints avilable.
"adure", oil on canvas, 24x30, 2006
I get wrapped up in all sorts of creative endeavors, though I am primarily a visual artist. I exhibit continuously in galleries and other venues, and I am eternally grateful for the opportunities it has provided in terms of meeting and interacting with so many people.Examples of some of my work can be seen here:
Art Wanted
Paul N Grech Website
Abstract Earth Gallery
I have signed, limited-edition prints of a number of my paintings. You can see them through the ArtWanted link posted above. Please inquire if you have any questions.
Aside from that, I am fairly convinced that the internet started as a type of silent warfare waged upon the world’s youth by a group of very patient and forward-thinking Chinese guys. Thanks to the likes of MySpace, YouTube and others, overall productivity of the average American worker has been utterly decimated.
I attended Virginia Tech and graduated with a degree in the sciences. In 1996 I won the Nobel Prize for discovering that crackerjacks are nothing more than microwaved candy-corns. I still lose sleep trying to figure out why nature hasn't devised a disease that is good for its host rather than one that cannibalizes it.
My zodiac sign is Cancer, meaning I am sensitive and intuitive and periodically mistaken for a homo. I will never run for president because I could probably do more good for mankind being an average consumer. I figure that each item I purchase justifies the existence of some underpaid stranger on the other side of the world.
My favorite music is the sound of another person making an ass of himself. I believe there is an inverse relationship between intelligence and volume. Never trust anything followed by an exclamation point. Nature does nothing uselessly, and so extreme physical beauty should always be met with great suspicion.
I have no pets, although I’m a staunch supporter of equal rights for trilobites. I’m fascinated by animals because they’re like biodegradable toys you can eat. Sadly, slug-fight betting has never really caught on, probably because it’s difficult to get them incited enough to want to kick each other’s asses. I love sushi and can’t explain why. I have never eaten a pinworm casserole, nor would I imagine it to be savory.
I am 5’10”, athletic build. I think sports jerseys are moronic but I’d never tell you that in person. I would also expect people who are fuck-ups to have really cool personalities based on the principles of Darwinian selection..it would be the very least required to prevent other people from choking the living shit out of them.
That being said, I believe the “fool” is paramount in Gaia’s well-oiled sense of humor, and so I wouldn’t be the least bit shocked to break open the paper one morning and learn that Paris Hilton had accidentally stumbled across a solution to the Unified Field Theory during a Simple Life stint at MIT.
Anyway, love you all.
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My Interests

Painting. Sculpture. Art. Writing. Coffee. Making Things. Laughing. DNA. Traveling (when I can). Superb design. Archbishop Furball. Tequila. Motorcycling. Soccer. Seratonin. Gozo. Not sleeping enough. Bossa Nova. Aishwarya Rai. Food. Olguita.
"Man and guitar III", oil on canvas, 24x30
"Beethoven's 5th", oil on canvas, 24x30
"Trane", 24" x 30", oil on canvas, 2006

I'd like to meet:

Other artists, collaborators, creative types, photographers, dancers, art enthusiasts and collectors, mad scientists (and/or generally content ones). The Umbilical Brothers. Edward O. Wilson. Mark Ryden. Larry David. Yo-Yo Ma. Mr. Bean. My maker. Anyone except Paris Hilton.



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Music:

I like all kinds of stuff, ranging from electronica to old school Coleman Hawkins/Ben Webster Stan Getz jazz. Lamb is amazing. Oystein Sevag. Buena Vista Social Club.
A little something inspired by the muzik of Dave Brubeck...

Movies:

Malena

Television:

is nothing but commercials.

Heroes:

My family and friends, fellow artists, the alpha human being, Cyanobacteria everywhere, Dino Valls, Robert ParkeHarrison, Thomas Heatherwick, Nate Williams, Odd Nerdrum, Joseph Campbell, Josh Stippich (of Electronluv), Wosene Worke Kosrof, David Lynch, Dr. Suess, Richard Dawkins, Steven Hawking, Carl Sagan, Richard Pryor, Watson & Crick, Indiana Jones, Tom & Jerry, Hieronymous Bosch, Neils Bohr, Rene Magritte, Marcel Duchamp, Claude Debussy, Stanley Kubrick, Bob Marley, Eduardo Kac, M.C. Escher, Quentin Tarantino, Nicola Tesla, Diana Krall, Matt Hotch, Beethoven, Pablo Picasso, Archimedes, Stan Getz, Andy Goldsworthy, Leonardo Da Vinci, David Foster Wallace, Johnny Knoxville, Martin Luther King, Salavador Dali, Wyle E. Cyote, Antonio Gaudi, Amadeo Modigliani, Sergi Isupov, Tom Friedman, Salvador Dali, Marc Chagall, Stalin from the movie "Better off dead", Dave Chapelle, George Carlin, Charles Darwin, Maggie Taylor, Richard Feynman, Rafael Olbinski, Satchmo, Sergi Isupov, Alex Delarge, Ron Arad, David Roy, Archbishop Furball.
"Panspermic Apple", 5" x 5", mixed media assembly

My Blog

Brush

    A great thing has happened to me recently; I have to come to realize my utter love for the brush. Perhaps it's all the painting I've had to endure over the past few weeks while breakin...
Posted by Paul on Fri, 09 May 2008 08:02:00 PST

Christ killer

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Posted by Paul on Sun, 23 Dec 2007 03:43:00 PST

"Fly"

Although I started this painting the day after I returned from my fall trip to Ecuador, it is just about completed now, thanks to my holiday vacation. I came back so refreshed and so thoroughly enamor...
Posted by Paul on Sun, 30 Dec 2007 02:30:00 PST

Baby Bomber


Posted by Paul on Sun, 16 Dec 2007 02:47:00 PST

Impressions of South Beach; Part II

versace boots moose knuckle kool-ade hips empty-headed pet dopamine cleft men suffering septum envy peckers wrecked and speckled gravity on break things flinging up things burning out poker...
Posted by Paul on Thu, 28 Sep 2006 09:47:00 PST

Magazine Illustrations

I was asked to come up with some illustrations for our corporate magazine; the theme of which was "innovation" and how it applies to the way we conduct research and development. These images were...
Posted by Paul on Wed, 28 Nov 2007 02:16:00 PST

Ecuador

Having just returned from a 2 week trip to Ecuador, I'm enjoying the new groove I acquired from witnessing such fantastic landscapes and lavish sensory experiences. And while I might sit down so...
Posted by Paul on Mon, 17 Sep 2007 05:47:00 PST

No hibernating for these bears...

Damn I love discovering weird toys. If there was an award for most gratuitous use of quadruped genitalia in sculpture, surely it would go to artist Peter Underhill. He unleashes some world-cl...
Posted by Paul on Thu, 26 Apr 2007 07:43:00 PST

Trying to be remain optimistic here...

Don't have too much to say about the VA Tech massacre other than that it is a complete and utter calamity. And I'm saddened to think that, after all the positive experiences this wonderful university ...
Posted by Paul on Wed, 18 Apr 2007 07:46:00 PST

The Lorax, Kenyans, and egocentric bipeds

I guess their runners need all the oxygen they can get to continue winning the New York marathon: A Kenyan Nobel Prize winner proposed planting 1 billion trees during 2007 as a proactive response to ...
Posted by Paul on Fri, 10 Nov 2006 09:11:00 PST